Somoto

Somoto is a city and a municipality located in the hills of northern , and capital of the department of . It is around 20 km south-west of and 51 km north-west of .
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  • Type: City with 20,900 residents
  • Description: city in Nicaragua
  • Also known as: Somoto, Madriz”, “Somoto, Nicaragua”, “Villa de Santiago de los Caballeros de Somoto Grande”, and “Xomotepetl

Somoto

Latitude
13.4837° or 13° 29′ 1″ north
Longitude
-86.5826° or 86° 34′ 57″ west
Population
20,900
Elevation
683 metres (2,241 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NI SOM
Open location code
765MFCM8+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2773644825
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3616232
Wiki­data ID
Q1010954
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Somoto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سوموتو، نيكاراغوا
  • Asturian: Somoto
  • Basque: Somoto
  • Belarusian: Самота
  • Bengali: সমোতো
  • Bulgarian: Сомото
  • Catalan: Somoto
  • Cebuano: Somoto
  • Chinese: Somoto
  • Chinese: 索莫托
  • Danish: Somoto
  • Dimli (individual language): Somoto, Madriz
  • Dimli (individual language): Somoto
  • Dutch: Somoto
  • Egyptian Arabic: سوموتو
  • Esperanto: Somoto
  • Finnish: Somoto
  • French: Somoto
  • Georgian: სომოტო
  • German: Somoto
  • Greek: Σομότο
  • Gujarati: સોમોટો
  • Hebrew: סומוטו
  • Hindi: सोमोटो
  • Indonesian: Somoto
  • Italian: Somoto
  • Japanese: ソモト
  • Kannada: ಸೋಮೊಟೊ
  • Korean: 소모토
  • Latvian: Somota
  • Latvian: Somoto
  • Lithuanian: Somotas
  • Malay: Somoto
  • Marathi: सोमोतो
  • Min Nan Chinese: Somoto
  • Moksha: Сомота
  • Moksha: Сомото
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Somoto
  • Ossetian: Сомото
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Somoto
  • Polish: Somoto
  • Portuguese: Somoto
  • Russian: Сомото
  • Serbian: Сомото
  • Serbo-Croatian: Somoto
  • Sinhala: සොමොටෝ
  • Slovenian: Somoto
  • Spanish: Somoto
  • Swedish: Somoto
  • Tamil: சோமோடோ
  • Telugu: సొమొటో
  • Thai: โซโมโต
  • Turkish: Somoto
  • Ukrainian: Сомото
  • Urdu: سوموتو، مادریس
  • Vietnamese: Somoto

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